There has been a growing debate in recent decades about the range and substance of urban theory. The debate has been marked by many different claims about the nature of cities, including declarations that the urban is an incoherent concept, that urban society is nothing less than modern society as a whole, that the urban scale can no longer be separated from the global scale, and that urban the...

in recent years, medical and health care consumption has risen, making health risk an important determinant of household spending and welfare. we aimed to examine the determinants of medical and health care expenditure to help policy-makers in the improvement of china's health care system, benefiting the country, society and every household. this paper employs panel data from china's provinces ...

Rahul Mehrotra is an architect , urban designer and principal with Rahu/ Mehrotra Associates, Bombay,/ndia. He has a Master 's degree in Urban Design from Harvard University. He is Executive Director of the Urban Design Research Institute, and on the Board of Governors of the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority's Heritage Society. Recent books include, Bombay-The Cities Within, a...

The urban ecosystem is a complex system hat are compounded of environment –economic-social ,the factors of urban ecosystem affect the decision of the floating population to chose city .In this paper ,we according to the urban ecosystem to design the questionnaire ,and study the weights of the factors that influence the decision by AHP ,and find that economy is most important which is 0.6806, th...

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Abstract Discourse on alienation has been widely discussed from a social and psychological point of view. The influence the physical environment in urban context not discussed, although often affects behaviour state humans around it. This article is structured to describe extent discourse built so that discussion this topic can be deepened society 5.0 where life’s quality improved with use data...

In recent years many transformations have occurred in Iranian society and women and girls still have a lot of worries about comes to urban public spaces. Also, due to some ambiguities in defining the domain of public space in traditional Islamic cities and gaps in the knowledge related to the Kurdish cities, the main problem of this paper is how we can define a participatory approach to improve...

Urban soils provide an array of ecosystem services to inhabitants of cities and towns. Urbanization affects soils and their capacity to provide ecosystem services directly through disturbance and management (e.g., irrigation) and indirectly through changes in the environment (e.g., heat island effect and pollution). Both direct and indirect effects contribute to form a mosaic of soil conditions...